September 11, 2008

fumiko nozawa.

This series of photographs by fumiko nozawa is both beautiful to look at aesthetically and deeply moving as a portrait of a person's life, captured through the things they collected and saved over time. All are images taken of his mother's chest of drawers, capturing the stories and tools and ephemera of a person in an intimate and very reverent way. There's a stillness and quiet distance in this work as if the jumble of life that brought all the bits and pieces together has slowed down or stopped. They make my heart ache with their beauty and clarity.